This is the founding statement of the Quebec Public Sector Workers Rank-and-File Coordinating Committee which is fighting to mobilize the rank and file to prevent the unions scuttling the strike movement and reaching sell-out agreements with the CAQ government.
Striking public sector medical workers are expressing skepticism about Quebec's new health care reform bill, which passed after a vote at the National Assembly Saturday morning.
The government is proposing extending the legislative committee's work for three days, and reconvening the National Assembly to vote on the bill on Dec. 14.
English-speaking communities fear Santé Québec will create too much bureaucratic power in one system and remove local control from hospitals, clinics and other health institutions.
People with disabilities fear the abolishment of things like users' committees under Bill15. Vulnerable users and patients, they point out, would be left in the lurch.